Jai Lucas set to become next men’s basketball coach

[DMoney]

Hey, Pete…Ferman said your a leaker

I thought he said it was a rumor. Now it's a leak?

 

[cookies]

How many coaches has the Miami football program hired with ties to South Florida since you've been alive. And not just head coaches, the assistants too. And what exactly has that accomplished? We will not be raiding the city of Houston for players

Mario is doing pretty well I reckon. I guess we can do the hindsight is 20/20 game, but I think it was a very good idea to hire Mark Richt after what he accomplished at UGA. I wanted us to hire Mario when we hired Manny, but to his credit he did accomplish a turnover chain, two monster pass rushers in the first round, as well as some other pros. Other than that, he was mid.

That’s football though. Raiding is a strong term so Idk what that means in reality. But to answer your question, there is a difference when hiring a head coach or assistant & the amount of pull they have. And there is a difference with basketball that features half the amount of players as football does at once: meaning individuals can have bigger impacts. So comparing Lucas to Mike Rumph or James Coley does us no good in this discussion.

No head coach we’ve hired has a father who’s been a NFL HC and is a current assistant coach. No coach we’ve hired as a brother who runs of a prominent HS program or 7on7 in South Florida and is a current professional assistant.

The quickest semi-equivalent that comes to mind is Coach Joe. His brother coached Francisco in high school, which gave us an advantage, among other things, to landing both Francisco and Francis. Obviously not Miami based.

The Miami to Houston comparison is messy because obviously our team isn't located in Houston. And, manny Diaz & Randy Shannon did not have equivalent levels of DC success at non-Alma mater/big boy programs like Lucas did.

All that to say I agree with you that Houston shouldn’t be an exclusive priority, but it absolutely should have been a factor in taking into consideration the choice. As well as the fact that there is a middle school in North Carolina named after his grandfather. His family is well known all around America.

 

[BeachCanes]

Are we getting any of the Boozers? Will anyone from Duke transfer here?

 

[cookies]

What a dopey response. You continue to prove the stupidity of your posts over and over and over again.

You are a Radakovich suck-*** who just goes on and on building Bull**** Mountain.

And the worst part is that you are just a liar. Spouting falsehoods.

"Bill Foster literally has a worse record than Frank Haith". HOW? Bill Foster has a career record of 533-324, for a winning percentage of .622. Haith has a career record of 343-237, for a winning percentage of .591, and that is BEFORE you factor in the 23 wins that were vacated at Mizzou.

Bill Foster took a Miami program that had not played a game in 14 years, a program that was not even in a conference, and he won games. He went 78-71 in 5 seasons, including a 17-14 season and a 19-12 season. That is an amazing accomplishment, in and of itself. So, yeah, that's success, even if we then struggled when we joined the best basketball team in the country in the 1990s.

Any Miami fan with half of a brain knows why Leonard Hamilton struggled. It had nothing to do with his qualities as a coach. In fact, what Foster and Hamilton went through PROVES why we need coaches with head-coaching experience.

And here's where the ultimate ignorance of your posts is exposed. You act as if the SOLE MEASURE of why you hire a guy with prior head coaching experience is...wins and losses. And that's not it. As has been mentioned on this thread previously, there are so many CEO/administrative head-coach roles and responsbilities that most hot-**** recruiting assistants have never had to master. And that is the aspect you refuse to acknowledge.

All of your Googling and all of your stats-cut-and-pastes do not address the standards and needs and requirements of the job for a first-timer in a Power 4 conference at a school that is 2 years removed from a Final Four. In a time period where the old ways of "recruiting" are being displaced by money. Lord knows, you certainly can't face up to the fact that (a) if Lucas has a drop-off in recruiting at not-Texas-not-Kentucky-not-Duke with less money, then maybe Lucas isn't such a great recruiter, and (b) if Lucas is able to sign a ton of good players at Miami because Miami is willing to pay Texas-Kentucky-Duke money, then maybe it's the MONEY and not the man, and maybe Lucas isn't such a great recruiter.

I have no problems if Miami wants to pay blueblood NIL money for basketball. I would welcome it. But if we step up our NIL game, then you have to acknowledge that there is a much wider range of potential head coaches who could succeed at Miami, certainly more than just "he's the right guy, ya just gotta trust me" Jai Lucas.

I want a successful, proven head coach to come in to lead our program, not an on-the-job-trainee. If Miami starts tossing around huge NIL money, then I can name about 20 current head coaches who could succeed as well as, if not more than, Jai Lucas could.

Just stop it with all the Googling and falsehoods.

Lol u are dumb & reactive. My HS coach hooped & grew up with Coach L and his son played for L at George Mason. Have friends who played under L at UM.

My ego isn’t tied in with a man who I’ve never met (Rad), but only someone who can post a whole 50,000 times in 15 years would conclude such a thing . . . Such a bizarre thing to draw a conclusion that accuses me of being a Stan for an athletic Director


I am hyped about who Rad hired …. JAI LUCAS leading UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI. It’s already done and no amount of paragraphs by you will change that rooting for the ‘Canes basketball team in the future will be tied up with the head coach. Go ahead and bring those list of names out….. doesn’t matter

& I am comparing Haith’s record at Miami to Foster’s at Miami cuz we are talking about Miami. U wanna keep changing the goalposts. Your whole post was about emphasizing miami in big bold capital letters rather than other programs.

So not a lie or falsehood told which you literally acknowledge yourself when you wrote his Miami record of 78-71. Haith went 126 - 101 w/ a tougher schedule, as you alluded to. I did not denigrate any accomplishments of Hamilton or Foster. My words are clear.

It is evident that the comps were between preMiami + Miami records since that’s how you framed your argument. But now wins and losses don’t matter lmao

If you knew anything about college basketball you’d wonder, or already know the answer, as to why Cal and Scheyer brought in an outsider to their respective programs — two schools clearly doing well beforehand. Why Shaka Smart retained him from Rick Barnes’ staff.

As i already wrote, Lucas was the 1st Duke assistant who did not play at Duke in 3 decades. I also emphatically reject the notion that Lucas is only a recruiter who can’t coach — but those wins & losses you discredit may be the only good argument towards proving that so my words can not do much there.

Google’s my good buddy

Yall ****** hilarious. This was a good back n forth tho. Im off it now & forever

 

[KANE]

I just don’t understand how people saw Larranaga take us to totally new heights, see what’s going on in the SEC where they’ve just hoarded all of the proven mid-major coaches and established older coaches and are now the best conference in the country while the ACC does the exact opposite, and want us to go the unproven route because he can recruit. It’s so god**** stupid.

But hey. This is the same fanbase that wants “pro-style” QBs despite all of our best seasons over the past 25 years being with guys that can move, so I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that they’re on board with the smartest guy in the room moves.

 

[Angry Ibis]

I just don’t understand how people saw Larranaga take us to totally new heights, see what’s going on in the SEC where they’ve just hoarded all of the proven mid-major coaches and established older coaches and are now the best conference in the country while the ACC does the exact opposite, and want us to go the unproven route because he can recruit. It’s so god**** stupid.

But hey. This is the same fanbase that wants “pro-style” QBs despite all of our best seasons over the past 25 years being with guys that can move, so I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that they’re on board with the smartest guy in the room moves.

AirRaid Hoops --- let's ******* go!

 

[TwentySix]

AirRaid Hoops --- let's ******* go!